How to put wildcard entry into etc hosts

Question

I recently wanted to point all subdomains for a test domain  let s say example com to the localhost  Is there a way to point all requests on   example com to resolve to 127 0 0 1

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use dnsmasq  pretending you re using a debian-based dist ubuntu mint     check if it s installed with   sudo  systemctl status dnsmasq   If it is just disabled start it with   sudo  systemctl start dnsmasq   If you have to install it  write   sudo  apt-get install dnsmasq   To define domains to resolve edit  etc dnsmasq conf like this  address  example com 127 0 0 1   to resolve   example com    You need to reload dnsmasq to take effect for the changes    systemctl reload dnsmasq

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Here is the configuration for those trying to accomplish the original goal  wildcards all pointing to same codebase -- install nothing  dev environment ie  XAMPP  hosts file  add an entry  file   etc hosts  non-windows  127 0 0 1   example local  httpd conf configuration  enable vhosts  file   XAMPP etc httpd conf   Virtual hosts Include etc extra httpd-vhosts conf  httpd-vhosts conf configuration file  XAMPP etc extra httpd-vhosts conf  lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerAdmin admin example local     DocumentRoot  quot  path to XAMPP htdocs quot      ServerName example local     ServerAlias   example local      SetEnv APP ENVIRONMENT development      ErrorLog  quot logs example local-error log quot       CustomLog  quot logs example local-access log quot  common  lt  VirtualHost gt   restart apache create pac file  save as whatever pac wherever you want to and then load the file in the browser s network gt proxy gt auto configuration settings  reload if you alter this  function FindProxyForURL url  host      if  shExpMatch host   quot  example local quot          return  quot PROXY example local quot         return  quot DIRECT quot

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It happens that  etc hosts file doesn t support wild card entries    You ll have to use other services like dnsmasq  To enable it in dnsmasq  just edit dnsmasq conf and add the following line   address  example com 127 0 0 1

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